Quotes About Self-acceptance

I don't believe in dieting.

I don't believe in diets.

All I'm really doing is talking about going on diets and... just about being a big guy. Why should that be any different from a comic that says, 'I was an alcoholic,' or, 'I was in a bad relationship?'

Women I've met in different countries have told me that seeing my face in magazines gives them the courage to love themselves.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a way. I've failed at music. I've failed at dance. And acting - there have been times when I went out and read lines to audition for acting parts. I believe that if anybody wrangled together those audition tapes, it would be pretty hysterically funny.

When you're a curvy girl, it can be hard to find a suit that fits perfectly in all the right places, but Target definitely has accomplished that with their swimwear.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

Kids used to pick on me because I was quiet, I was an easy target. But I wasn't quiet because I was scared.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about whether it's supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.

I don't have tattoos, I have scars!

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

People nag me about my weight, my cooking, my tattoos, my hair, my sexuality, everything. I can deal with all that because I'm still doing my job and I kind of like myself.

It's hard enough to break into my industry when you're my height and my size but adding the tattoos on top of it, there's not many clients that will hire you if you have Miss Piggy tattooed on your arm.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

We can't all have faces like Elizabeth Taylor or Angelina Jolie.

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.

I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared.

You can't help the way you feel.

Normally, I am a little insecure about myself without a shirt on, as my days of being attractive are now behind me.